This is my fifth report on progress on the Comsat Legacy Project for those
who have donated, volunteered or, otherwise, shown an interest in the effort.
I have some very positive developments to report.

Work at Lockheed Martin

All of the selected Comsat materials that were stored in Bethesda have been
moved to Clarksburg and have been consolidated with the other Comsat
materials already stored there. This includes the various awards previously
displayed on a wall in Bethesda as mentioned in my last report. We just
finished taking a high level inventory of the materials. Lockheed has
furnished us with a 16 mm projector and a 3/4 inch tape player so that we can
review videos in that format. This is a great bonanza since the alternative
would have involved paying substantial rental fees for such machines. We now
only lack a beta tape player. Hale Montgomery has accepted responsibility
for review of all video materials.

Steve Teller, President of IOT Systems, LLC, has made a most intriguing
offer. He suggests that we store the Lockheed materials in his facility and
offers to digitize all of it at no cost to us. IOT Systems is a spin-off of
Comsat Labs engaged in in-orbit test services for a number of clients. They
have a suite of offices and lab space on the floor immediately above
Lockheed's records area in the Clarksburg East Wing. The area is secured
with magnetic pass keys and there is adequate space for our materials.
Lockheed has a five-year renewable lease on Clarksburg and IOT has sublet
their space from Lockheed for the same period. The lease expires in
November, 2007. IOT has all the equipment necessary for the digitizing
program except for converting 35 mm slides and Steve states that he intends
to make such a capital investment in the near future. If this works out, we
will avoid the major transportation and storage costs previously anticipated
for this year and open up a host of possibilities for the future.

Comara

Comara continues to give us excellent cooperation. If you go to their
redesigned web site at www.comara.org, you will see Comsat Legacy given
prominent treatment. All of our information will be kept outside of the
member pages so that anyone, Comara member or not, will be able to access it.
We had a display at Comara's well-attended first party on March 4 including
the two Comsat banners used as decorations. There was considerable interest
in the memorabilia and one viewer was moved to pull out his checkbook on the
spot.

Comsat History

I am in touch with David J. Whalen who has shown an interest in doing a
Comsat history. I first came in contact with his work when I read his
chapter in the book published by NASA, Beyond the Ionosphere, Fifty Years of
Satellite Communication. Since I also contributed a chapter to that book, I
had occasion to read the book in its entirety. His chapter which is entitled
"Billion Dollar Technology, A Short Historical Overview of the Origins of
Communications Satellite Technology, 1945-1965", made a very favorable
impression on me. An expanded version of this work is contained in his book
published last year by the Smithsonian Institution Press, The Origins of
Satellite Communications, 1945-1965.